Job summary
The Wakefield School Nursing Team are inviting you to apply for the Specialist Public Community Public Health Nurse role where you will play a fundamental role in the development of the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme, promoting childhood development, safeguarding children and young people, building community resilience and preventing social exclusion and deprivation, tackling important public health issues.

Main duties of the job
To plan, deliver and evaluate an efficient and cost effective Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Service for an identified school aged population within a defined geographical locality. To provide line management and leadership within the 5-19 skill mixed team and be pro-active in delivering the National and Public Health agendas in response to identified health and social need, to work in partnership with other agencies and meet agreed standards, objectives and statutory requirements

About us
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

We offer colleagues:

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.

Please note:

• Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
• Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
• Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.

Job responsibilities
To be responsible for leading and delivering the Healthy Child Programme against the 6 early and school aged years high impact areas, ensuring services are provided within the tiered model approach building community capacity, universal, universal plus and universal partnership plus. To be professionally accountable and responsible and adhere to and apply the NMC standard.

Making Every Contact Count to enable the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle information.

Work with parents and children to promote the physical, emotional and social development of pre-school and school aged children. To apply the principles of the Solihull approach in all work undertaken with children, young people and families.

The post holder will ensure inter-agency/professional partnership working between services, statutory and voluntary organisations to facilitate integrated approaches in meeting the needs of children.

Working in an integrated way partnership with local communities to build community capacity; utilising strength-based approaches.

Hold a caseload of families with school aged children and young people, providing specialist evidence based advice, information and support to the population served, team members and relevant agencies. Lead and Deliver the Healthy Child Programme with a drive towards reducing the gap in health and social health inequalities.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse.
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification (School Nursing).
• Highly developed specialist knowledge relevant to working with children and families underpinned by theory.

Desirable

• Qualification at post graduate diploma level or equivalent.

Experience
Essential

• Experience of partnership working.
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Sound knowledge and experience of promoting the safeguarding and wellbeing of children.
• Influencing and negotiating skills.

Desirable

• Experience in leading teams in the provision of health services to children, young people and families.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).